OPENING A BUSINESS IN DUBAI

OPENING A BUSINESS
​Once the preliminary details of your future business are ironed out and your funding and initial investment capital is in order, you can begin the formal process of obtaining a trade licence through the Department of Economic Development. Regardless of what business structure you’ve decided on, if you’re an expatriate you are likely need to appoint a local service agent, also known as a sponsor.

Since non-GCC nationals are not permitted to be majority share holders outside of free zones in the UAE, a system of shared ownership has been developed in which UAE nationals formally own 51% of the company and the foreign proprietor owns the remaining 49%; details of profit and loss distribution are then agreed upon in a separate contract. Local sponsors can be individuals or locally-owned businesses. For the most part, a local sponsor will not have any responsibility towards the business but is obliged to assist with all government related procedures such as obtaining permits, trade licences, visas and labour cards. His/her signature will be required on most official forms.

Depending on the legal structure of the business, the Department of Economic Development has certain capital requirements for obtaining a trade licence. Those requirements are detailed in the DED’s official explanation of legal business structures on its website.

Also keep in mind that certain businesses require separate approvals from varying government ministries before the trade application can be completed. When applying for a trade name, be sure to enquire about any external approvals that will be needed for the proposed business activity. Do note that 'Virtual offices' are not allowed by DED which has advised potential investors that any commercial enterprise in Dubai must have a physical address and an actual office.

It is important to do as much preliminary research as possible before applying for your trade licence. This means attending trade shows and exhibitions, networking through Dubai’s various business councils and even meeting with a consultancy firm that specialises in the business set up process.
GETTING INITIAL APPROVALS
​Law No. 13 of 2011 states that the Department of Economic Development (DED) will be the body responsible for the regulation of economic activity for all businesses outside the freezones. DED's responsibilities include licensing, classification of economic activity permitted within Dubai, issuing trade permits for marketing activities and setting business work hours. The law also establishes a one-window system with a single portal managed by DED for issuing licenses to businesses and dealing with investors.

In March 2012, DED announced a new instant license that will be launched for investors. The new instant license will allow investors to start their business immediately and complete the rest of the licensing requirements such as approvals from other government authorities within 120 days.

The first official step in obtaining a trade licence is to reserve a trade name and obtain an initial approval from the Department of Economic Development. To reflect its persistent efforts to enhance the UAE’s top rankings in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report and promote the country as a globally-competitive business hub, the Department of Economic Development has expanded its eServices window by offering these services through law firms in Dubai.

 Unlike the rest of the official set up process, this step is the same for all business structures. The application for trade name approval can be completed online and a list of trade name restrictions and regulations can be found along with the online application. The costs for obtaining a trade name varies depending on the content and language of the name. The process is relatively straight forward – after filling out the online application or submitting the application in person to the DED, you will be given a date on which you can pick up the approval. All fees must be paid before the trade name approval certificate can be released.



Applicants can usually submit their initial approval applications at the same time as submitting their trade name approval application. The documents needed for this step vary depending on the business structure of the company. At this point you will also need to submit any necessary special approvals from Ministries corresponding to your business.


If you are planning to open your new business within a free zone, keep in mind that the process for registering a trade name is usually taken care of by the free zone authority and each authority has different application processes.

Opening a branch of an existing company requires an added set of documents that verify the legitimacy of the branch and its future managers. A list of necessary documents for licensing a branch or any form of business can be found on the DED website. All new agencies can now register electronically with the Ministry of Economy using the 'New Agency Registration eService' that was launched in March 2011.

New business registration procedures in Dubai -  Dubai Economic Department (DED)
Register and apply for new company in Dubai online - DED
Search for trade name in Dubai – DED
Special Licences and Approvals – DED
Dubai to issue investors instant trade licenses - Gulf News

Canada province's new migration scheme: No job offer required, no point-based system

A new provincial immigration programme in Canada has recently entered the immigration market. Nova Scotia offers aspirant immigrants a fair chance to obtain the Canadian residency.

The new programme, named the Regional Labour Market Demand Stream, is part of the Provincial Nominee Program of Nova Scotia, an eastern peninsular province surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.

With its broad selection criteria, it offers an attractive alternative to the more restrictive immigration progammes for applicants interesting in obtaining the Canadian residency.

For one, no job offer is required at the time of the application. Instead, the applicant will be asked to present an Employment Settlement Plan. In this plan, the applicant must elaborate on its intended occupation in Nova Scotia, the reasons for choosing Nova Scotia, the location they wish to settle and the reason why they want to settle there.

Although a job letter is not required, the applicant must be eligible in one of the labour categories that are in demand. The province has published an occupation list including 43 occupations, mostly relating to the fields of engineering, health services (including nursing), skilled trades, and food services (a complete list can be viewed here:)

The fact that no job offer is required may prove beneficial to some applicants, stated David Cohen, Canadian Attorney and author ofCitizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) news.

“In recent years, many if not most new Canadian immigration programs require that individuals first obtain a job offer in Canada in order to be eligible to apply. The fact that this new stream does not require a job offer is likely to generate large amounts of interest.”

The fact that no point-based system is applied, as is the case in many other programmes, forms another advantage according to Deepak Kohli, President of Transcend Consultants, a Canadian Immigration Consultant.

In order to be eligible for the programme, conducting an IELTS tests or providing an Educational Credential Assessment are not required. Minimum language proficiency must be proven through English studies, and the applicant must have at least a high school level of education and a degree, diploma, or certificate from a post-secondary institution.

Furthermore, the applicant must be between the age of 21 and 55, be legally residing in the current country of residence and have sufficient funds for settlement in Nova Scotia.

“This is a new experimental program with broadly defined selection criteria. In a way, this goes back to the core Canadian Immigration selection system that most applicants used to face in the past, however, without a defined selection grid/ points system,” commented Kohli.

The programme was opened for applications on March 6 this year. First, applicants must apply to for the programme on the provincial level. The processing time of this application is expected to be up to one month or more depending on the volume of applications received and the time required to assess the application documents.

When the application is approved, the Nova Scotia Office of Immigration will then issue a Provincial Nomination Certificate, which must be approved by the Federal government. The Federal government assesses an applicant’s admissibility with respect to medical and security/criminality concerns and is finally responsible for granting Canadian permanent resident status.

Missing Malaysia Airlines latest: Final cockpit words... 'Good night Malaysian three seven zero'

The last words from the cockpit of the missing Malaysian airliner were a standard "Good night Malaysian three seven zero", Malaysian authorities said, changing their account of the  critical last communication from a more casual "All right, good night."

The correction almost four weeks after Flight MH370 vanished was made as Malaysian authorities face heavy criticism, particularly from China, for mismanaging the search and holding back information.

Painstaking analysis of radar data and limited satellite information has focused the search on a vast, inhospitable swathe of the southern Indian Ocean west of the Australian city of Perth, but has so far failed to spot any sign of it.

"Good night Malaysian three seven zero" would be a more formal, standard sign-off from the cockpit of the Boeing  777, which was just leaving Malaysia-controlled air space on its route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Malaysia says the plane was likely diverted deliberately, probably by a skilled aviator, leading to speculation of involvement by one or more of the pilots. Investigators, however, have determined no apparent motive or other red flags among the 227 passengers or the 12 crew.

"We would like to confirm that the last conversation in the transcript between the air traffic controller and the cockpit is at 0119 (Malaysian Time) and is "Good night Malaysian three seven zero," the Department of Civil Aviation said in a statement late on Monday.

Minutes later its communications were cut off and it turned back across Malaysia and headed toward the Indian Ocean.

Malaysia's ambassador to China told Chinese families in Beijing as early as March 12, four days after the flight went missing, that the last words had been "All right, good night".

The statement said authorities were still conducting "forensic investigation" to determine whether the last words from the cockpit were by the pilot or the co-pilot. Previously, Malaysia Airlines has said that the words were believed to have come from the co-pilot.

March 31, 2014

Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak will visit Australia to witness the race-against-time bid to locate a crash site for flight MH370, his government said on Monday as a ship equipped to pinpoint its "black box" prepared to steam to the search area.

Ships and planes from seven nations scanned a vast zone far off western Australia for yet another day, but the hunt for debris that would prove the Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the Indian Ocean more than three weeks ago turned up nothing.

"The prime minister, who is going to Perth on Wednesday, will be briefed fully on how things have been conducted, and probably will be discussing what are the chances ahead," Malaysian Transport and Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.

Experts warn debris must be found within days to nail down a crash site in order for any use of the US-supplied black box detector -- known as a towed pinger locator (TPL) -- to be feasible.

The US Navy, which has supplied the detection device, said in a statement on Monday: "Without confirmation of debris it will be virtually impossible to effectively employ the TPL since the range on the black-box pinger is only about a mile."

But Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said earlier in the day no time limit would be imposed on the search for clues as to what happened.

'We owe it to the world'

"We owe it to the families, we owe it to everyone that travels by air, we owe it to the anxious governments of the countries who had people on that aircraft. We owe it to the wider world which has been transfixed by this mystery for three weeks now," Abbott said in Perth.

The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people vanished without a trace on March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, leaving stunned relatives, the aviation industry, and ordinary travellers around the world hanging on the mystery.

Families of Chinese passengers have angrily attacked Malaysia, alleging incompetence and deceit in what even Malaysian officials call the "unprecedented" loss of a jumbo jet.

More than a dozen Chinese relatives -- part of a group of nearly 30 who arrived on the weekend to press for answers -- kept up the pressure after a prayer session Monday at a Kuala Lumpur Buddhist temple.

"We will never forgive those who hurt our families and don't tell the truth and delay the rescue mission," a spokesman for the group, Jiang Hui, told reporters, reiterating suspicions toward Malaysia voiced by many relatives of the 153 Chinese aboard.

The Australian vessel Ocean Shield, fitted with the pinger locator and an underwater drone designed to home in on the black box's signal, was to conduct sea trials off Perth on Monday before heading to the search area.

A black box signal usually lasts only about 30 days. Fears are mounting that time will run out -- Ocean Shield will not reach the search zone, now the size of Norway, until Thursday, Hishammuddin said, roughly 26 days after the plane went missing.

If floating MH370 debris is found, authorities plan to analyse recent weather patterns and ocean currents to determine where the plane went down.

Malaysia believes MH370 was deliberately diverted by someone on board and that satellite data indicates it crashed in the remote Indian Ocean.

Monday's search saw ten planes take to the skies, with ten ships already at sea. Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, South Korea and the US are taking part.

Malaysia remains officially in charge, but Australia has assumed increasing responsibility, appointing retired air chief marshal Angus Houston to head a new coordination centre in Perth.

Many Chinese relatives, still holding out slim hopes, have taken issue with Najib's March 24 announcement that the plane was lost at sea, despite the lack of firm evidence.

Malaysian response 'clumsy'

Hishammuddin said "high-level" Malaysian officials and experts involved in an investigation into MH370 would brief families simultaneously in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing "soon" in a bid to explain Malaysia's stance.

Malaysia insists it is being transparent, but is yet to release any details of its investigation into what happened, which has included probing the backgrounds of everyone on the flight, including its crew.

In testy exchanges with foreign journalists Monday, Hishammuddin said: "We are not hiding anything, we are just following the procedure that has been set."

Malaysia also has come under fire from China's state media, while Beijing has pressed for more transparency in the investigation. Authorities there allowed angry relatives to stage a rare protest last week at Malaysia's embassy.

But a commentary in the government-controlled China Daily struck a more measured tone Monday, urging relatives to accept their losses.

"Although the Malaysian government's handling of the crisis has been quite clumsy, we need to understand this is perhaps the most bizarre incident in Asian civil aviation history," it said.

EARLIER REPORT

Families being prepared to accept... NO survivors

Commentary in China's state-run media is urging people to react "rationally" to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, after days of protests by passengers' relatives who say Malaysia has mishandled the incident.

Many Chinese family members of passengers have expressed extreme skepticism over accounts by the Malaysian government. They maintain Malaysian officials are not telling all they know about the plane's disappearance March 8 and have expressed frustration that they concluded it went down in the Indian Ocean without any physical evidence.

The commentary in the China Daily says "we should not let anger prevail over facts and rationality."

"No matter how distressed we are ... it is certain that flight MH370 crashed in the Indian Ocean and no one on board survived," the comments say.

All evidence points to 'lost'

All evidence points to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 being lost in the remote Indian Ocean, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday, backing his Malaysian counterpart's view that the plane crashed.

The flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished on March 8 carrying 239 passengers and crew, but more than three weeks later no wreckage has been found.

Many relatives of those on board have been incensed at the announcement on March 24 by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak that -- based on detailed analysis of satellite data -- the plane could be presumed lost at sea.

But Abbott said he agreed with Najib's conclusions.

"The accumulation of evidence is that the aircraft has been lost and it has been lost somewhere in the south of the Indian Ocean," he told reporters at the Perth military base coordinating the search.

"That's the absolutely overwhelming wave of evidence and I think that Prime Minister Najib Razak was perfectly entitled to come to that conclusion, and I think once that conclusion had been arrived at, it was his duty to make that conclusion public."

Australia is coordinating the international hunt for the missing Boeing 777, which involves about 100 personnel searching from onboard surveillance aircraft and 1,000 sailors in ships in or near the search zone.

"This is an extraordinarly difficult exercise. We are searching a vast area of ocean and we are working on quite limited information," Abbott said.

"Nevertheless, the best brains in the world are applying themselves to this task, all of the technological mastery that we have is being applied and brought to bear here. If this mystery is solvable, we will solve it. But I don't want to underestimate just how difficult it is."

Search will go on

The Australian leader refused to put a time limit on the search, saying: "We can keep searching for quite some time to come. The intensity of our search and the magnitude of our search is increasing, not decreasing."

"We owe it to the families, we owe it to everyone that travels by air, we owe it to the governments of the countries who had citizens on that aircraft, we owe it to the wider world which has been transfixed by this mystery for three weeks now," he said.

"We owe it to everyone to do everything we reasonably can."

More flotsam

Dozens of items have been spotted since Australian authorities moved the search 1,100 km (685 miles) north after new analysis of radar and satellite data, but none has been linked to Flight MH370.

The new search area, while closer to Perth and subject to calmer weather, is also closer to an area of the Indian Ocean where currents drag all manner of flotsam and rubbish.

"I would say the search area is located just outside of what we call the garbage patches," Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales said.

"However, there is much more debris there than in the Southern Ocean. Debris from Western Australia that ends up in the garbage patches will have to move through the search area."

However the greatest problem remains the vast search area, roughly the size of Poland or New Mexico.

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Missing Malaysia Airline MH370: All eyes (ears) on block box locator

March 30, 2014

Ten ships and as many aircraft will search a swathe of the Indian Ocean west of Perth on Sunday, trying again to find some trace of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 after more than three weeks of fruitless and frustrating hunting.

Numerous objects have been spotted in the two days since Australian authorities moved the search 1,100 km (685 miles) after new analysis of radar and satellite data concluded the Boeing 777 travelled faster and for a shorter distance after vanishing from civilian radar screens on March 8.

However, none has been confirmed as coming from Flight MH370 and time is running out to find any debris, work out a likely crash zone and recover the aircraft's "black box" voice and data recorders before batteries pinging their location die.

An Australian navy ship fitted with a sophisticated US black box locater and an unmanned underwater drone is due to leave later on Sunday.

But the ADV Ocean Shield will take days to reach the search zone, an area the size of New Mexico some 1,850 km (1,150 miles) to the west of Perth.

Malaysia says the plane, which disappeared less than an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was likely diverted deliberately. Investigators have determined no apparent motive or other red flags among the 227 passengers or the 12 crew.

Weather threatens search

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said aircraft from China, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the United States would be searching on Sunday.

"Weather in the search area is forecast to worsen today with light showers and low cloud, though search operations are expected to continue," AMSA said in a statement

Both a Chinese ship and an Australian navy vessel picked up objects yesterday but nothing has been linked to Flight MH370.

The Chinese navy vessel Jinggangshan, which carries two helicopters, reached the new search area early on Saturday where it was expected to focus on searching for plane surfaces, oil slicks and life jackets in a sea area of some 6,900 sq km, state news agency Xinhua reported.

The search, being coordinated by Australia, has involved unprecedented cooperation between more than two dozen countries and 60 aircraft and ships but has also been bedevilled by regional rivalries and an apparent reluctance to share potentially crucial information due to security concerns.

Family protests

The Malaysian government has come under strong criticism from China, home to more than 150 of the passengers, where relatives of the missing have accused the government of "delays and deception".

More than 20 Chinese relatives staged a brief protest on Saturday outside the Lido hotel in Beijing where families have been staying for the past three weeks, demanding evidence of the plane's fate.

The peaceful protest came just days after dozens of angry relatives clashed with police after trying to storm the Malaysian embassy.
Many of Saturday's protesters carried slogans demanding the "truth" about their lost loved ones.

"They don't have any direct evidence," said Steve Wang, who had a relative on the flight. "(Their conclusion) is only based on mathematical (analysis) and they used an uncertain mathematical model. Then they come to the conclusion that our relatives are all gone."

Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said his country was committed to seeing the investigation through to its final conclusion.

"What they want from us is a commitment to continue the search, and that I have given, not only on behalf of the Malaysian government but the so many nations involved," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur after speaking with families on Saturday.

For more than a week, the international effort had been scouring seas 2,500 km (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, where satellite images had shown possible debris from Flight MH370. That search zone has now been abandoned.

In the first week of the search, Vietnamese, Chinese and Malaysian ships and planes concentrated their efforts in the South China Sea.
The shift north of the search was based on painstaking analysis of Malaysian military radar data and satellite readings from British company Inmarsat.

Chinese ships trawl new area

Chinese ships trawled a new area in the Indian Ocean for a missing Malaysian passenger jet on Saturday, as the search for Flight MH370 entered its fourth week amid a series of false dawns over sightings of debris.

Australian authorities coordinating the operation moved the search 1,100 km (685 miles) north on Friday after new analysis of radar and satellite data concluded the Malaysia Airlines  plane travelled faster and for a shorter distance after vanishing from civilian radar screens on March 8.

Chinese aircraft spotted three suspicious objects in a new search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet off Australia's west coast, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

The items are white, red and orange respectively, Xinhua said.

The southern Indian Oceano is now the main focus of the search, where unidentified pieces of debris have been spotted by New Zealand and Australian Air Force Orions.

Who has seen what so far

Fresh objects spotted by planes searching for a missing Malaysian passenger jet in a new area of the southern Indian Ocean have again raised hopes of unravelling the three-week old mystery.

Australian authorities coordinating the operation dramatically moved the air and sea search 1,100 km (685 miles) north on Friday after new analysis of radar and satellite data concluded Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 travelled faster and for a shorter distance after vanishing from civilian radar screens on March 8.

Australia said late on Friday that five international aircraft had spotted "multiple objects of various colours" in the new search area some 1,850 km (1,150 miles) west of Perth.

Flight Lieutenant Jamin Baker was on a New Zealand Airforce Orion which spotted several items and dropped a marker buoy in "an area of interest".

"Obviously we don't know if these (objects) are associated with the aircraft yet but it certainly looks like we are seeing a lot more debris and just general flotsam in the water, so we could be on to something here," Baker said.

One Chinese navy ship was in the area and would be trying to recover objects on Saturday, while other ships were steaming to the area, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.

Malaysia says the Boeing 777, which vanished less than an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was likely diverted deliberately but investigators have turned up no apparent motive or other red flags among the 227 passengers or the 12 crew.

U.S. officials close to the investigation said the FBI found nothing illuminating in data it had received from computer equipment used by MH370's pilots, including a home-made flight simulator.

The search has involved more than two dozen countries and 60 aircraft and ships but has been bedevilled by regional rivalries and an apparent reluctance to share potentially crucial information due to security concerns.

Malaysian officials said the new search area was the result of a painstaking analysis of Malaysian military radar data and satellite readings from British company Inmarsat carried out by U.S., Chinese, British and Malaysian investigators.

Engine performance analysis by the plane's manufacturer Boeing helped investigators determine how long the plane could have flown before it ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean, they said.

"Information which had already been examined by the investigation was re-examined in light of new evidence drawn from the Inmarsat data analysis," Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference on Friday.

How To Lose Weight Fast and Easy NO EXERCISE

How To Lose Weight Fast and Easy NO EXERCISE
How To Lose Weight Fast & Easy w/ NO EXERCISE.

Foods That will help you see results in 2 weeks:
Lemon / Lime
Pineapples
Apples
Prunes (After or Before every meal {CAN ALSO BE USED FOR SNACKING).
GreenTea ( For 3 – 4 months [MORNING + LATE AFTERNOON + EVENING] half an hour after every meal.
Oolong Tea / Wulong Tea (After 3 – 4 months). half an hour after every meal.
Honey + Lemon + Hot Water (Before Sleeping).

WOMEN: less than 1200 Calories. (Per day)
MEN: less than 1900 Calories. (Per day)

TIPS & WARNINGS:
Green Tea & Oolong is best from either a traditional Chinese market/store or Walmart.
Do not add too much honey to your prior sleep drink because it can cause heartburn as normal honey does.
Do not Eat over 5 – 6 Prunes a day. It might cause irritation to your bowl movement.
Do not go overboard with Pineapples and Apples just because it helps burn fat. Everything should be eaten in healthy quantities. Fruits can cause uncomfortable bloating or a beautiful gassy BUM!!! hahahaha
Eat frozen yogurt instead of regular Ice cream.

Hope I haven’t missed out any important Tips or Additional Information.

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APPLY FOR DUBAI VISA ONLINE BY YOURSELF NO AGENT REQUIRED

Now, the citizens of Nigeria and other foreign nationals that reside in Nigeria who are travelling to Abu Dhabi (UAE) on Etihad Airways can apply for visa at the UAE Visa Processing Centre in Nigeria.

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Validity of permit: “60” days from the date of issue.
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Step 4: Transfer visa fee online using multiple payment options provided

Step 5: Take a print of your receipt with “Unique Receipt Number” or note it down to track your application form.

Step 6: On approval of your visa application by immigration, we will forward copy of your approved visa to the email ID provided. Please ensure that your email ID is correct. You can also collect copy of your visa from the submission office.

PAYPAL Option:

Step 1: Complete the application form “Online”,choose PAYPAL Payment option for visa fee payment and upload all the mandatory documents

Step 2: The website will be directed to “PAYPAL” payment gateway

Step 3: Follow the payment procedure and complete the payment

Step 4: On successful completion the system will generate receipt with “Unique Receipt Number”. Please note down the “Unique Receipt Number” for tracking purpose.

Important:

Countries without online payment gateway:

For guest from Nigeria it is not possible to make payment online. However, you can still complete application form online by following the simple steps:

Step 1: Please visit “Documents Required” page for information about visa types and documents required before you start the application process. If you choose to submit application “Apply In Person”, kindly ensure you have all the required documents in JPEG format for upload.

Step 2: Please visit any Zenith Bank branches and deposit the visa fee in our account (account details mentioned below).

BANK ADDRESS:

Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island

SORT CODE:

057150288

ACCOUNT NUMBER (DOLLAR Only):

5070254849

ACCOUNT NUMBER (NAIRA Only ):

1013425457

NAME:

TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Step 3: Complete your visa application form “Online” and upload all the mandatory documents.

Step 4: Please ensure that your application form is complete in all respect. We will not accept or process incomplete application.

Step 5: On successful completion of your application form the system will generate a “Temporary Receipt”. Please take print.

Step 6: Please send the Temporary Receipt copy along with the Zenith Bank Payment Receipt to onlinesubmissions@ttsng.com to complete the application submission.

Please let us know whether you will be applying by mail/courier or in person.

Apply By Mail Apply In Person

Apply By Mail Complete your visa request form using the link provided and send us the completed, printed and signed application form along with all the required documents through courier to our office for processing. Once we receive your documents we will send you an email receipt with your document tracking number, using that you could track the status of your application in our website. Applications sent by mail take about 6-7 working/business days to process from the date of receipt. Please read the terms and condition carefully before signing the Visa Request Form. We strongly recommend that you consider applying by mail which is extremely safe and is the most convenient method.

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Facebook wants to beam the Internet from the sky

Facebook wants to beam the Internet from the sky
Facebook revealed Thursday it has a lab working on using drones, satellites and solar-powered planes to provide web access around the world.

"We've been working on ways to beam Internet to people from the sky," Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on the leading social network.

The team at the Connectivity Lab builds on a quest by Facebook-launched Internet.org to make access to basic online services available everywhere on the planet.

"Connecting the whole world will require inventing new technology too," Zuckerberg said.

"That's what our Connectivity Lab focuses on, and there's a lot more exciting work to do here."

The team at the lab comprises experts in aerospace and communications technology, including former members of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and Ames Research Center, according to Facebook.

And it just added talent from a Britain-based startup behind long-flying solar powered, unmanned aircraft.

The lab is looking at varying tactics to achieve its mission. For remote regions or spread-out populations, the team is interested in using satellites orbiting the Earth.

Suburban populations could be given access to Internet service from gear in planes continually circling about 20,000 meters overhead, Facebook's Yael Maguire said in a YouTube video posted by Internet.org.

The planes would fly above the weather and, powered by the sun, could remain in the sky for months at a time, according to Maguire.

The team is looking at "tying it all together" using lasers to transmit data between satellites, aircraft, or other points.

"We are just at the beginning," Maguire said. "We have some amazing people on the team and there are some awesome problems to solve."

Dubai Police who took sex as bribe from woman overstaying visa

The Dubai Appeals Court has reduced from five years to one year the prison term awarded to a policeman who was convicted of having sex with a woman in the stairwell of her building as a bribe against not arresting her for overstaying her visa.

The court also reduced the sentence of the Uzbek woman DD, 26, who offered him sex in return for not arresting her, from three years to one year in jail followed by deportation.

According to the records, Tunisian watchman MJ, 26, was surprised when a woman entered the building behind Hamarain Centre in Muraqqabat followed by a policeman in uniform as early as 5.45am.

“I asked the policeman if there is any problem and he told me there is no problem. Then I asked him whether I should accompany him. The policeman asked me to sit at my place,” MJ testified.

However, the curious watchman watched the CCTV which is connected to 16 cameras. “I saw the policeman and the woman reached the fourth floor although the woman lived on the second floor and then they entered the stairwell through the emergency door. I climbed the stairs to the third floor and I could hear and see the policeman and the woman were engaged in sex.

“I went down to the reception are and saw the policeman coming out of the lift. When he saw me, the policeman asked me about residents of two houses on the fourth floor. I told him the residents are from the Philippines. The he entered the police patrol vehicle and drove away,” testified the watchman.

The watchman noted down the number of the police patrol vehicle and then went up through the stairwell. He could see sperm stains on the floor. He notified his senior who asked him to inform the police. Police lifted the sperm residues from the floor which proved to be of that of policeman, SH, 21.The woman’s DNA was found on the policeman’s body though the sperms found on her body were not that of the policeman.

The two confessed to having consensual sex that she offered to the policeman as bribe for not arresting her for violating the UAE’s residency rules.